Dear Siobhan,
In case
you (or Larissa) might for any reason be worried
about the
photograph
at the www address just below, please note that I
have added a piece of computer software code
(hidden to "regular" public viewers of the
particular "www page" just below) which
electronically instructs
all Internet search-engine
computers
NOT to list the
page in
any of the
directories they provide the general public
with:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/SiobhanAndLarissa/12September2012/EmailAndPhoto.htmI hope
this finds you rested and well after your long
journey, and that your cold has gone.
My
cold still lingers, and I still spend large parts
of the night coughing and spluttering in fitful
bouts, with hourly (or so) snatches of sleep in
between. The strange thing is, I experience little
or no trouble with it during the day. It's lying
down to sleep which seems to reactivate the
problem every night.
Love,
Dad.
xxx.
PS: I would
strongly suggest that,
for a while at least, you
"Cc"
all e-mails you send to me at the "Granddad
Finnerty"
connorandgracehorsey@yahoo.ie
address (which I sent in my e-mail to you
of yesterday, please see below), to the
newinngalway@yahoo.co.uk
address -- which I normally use -- as well:
in case of
"start-up"
problems with the
new "Granddad"
address.
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On
Mon, 17/9/12, Granddad Finnerty
<connorandgracehorsey@yahoo.ie>
wrote:
From: Granddad Finnerty
<connorandgracehorsey@yahoo.ie>
Subject:
Meeting Connor and Grace ...
To: "Siobhan Tara
Finnerty and Family"
<siobhan510@bigpond.com>
Date: Monday, 17
September, 2012, 19:22
Dear
Siobhan,
I hope all went well for you and
Larissa on your long journey back to Australia,
and that you both arrived home safely.
I
was really delighted to see you again (after our
more than 21 years or so of being so far apart),
and I believe the joyful and warm feelings and
memories connected with last Tuesday's reunion of
ours in the Kildare Hotel (near Trinity College
Dublin), will doubtless remain with me for the
remainder of my life.
I'm really sorry
about the way I blundered so badly with the car
luggage arrangements. It was not so much that my
car was too small (as I may have inaccurately and
half-heartedly indicated), and much more that I
failed to remove some bulky plastic boxes
(containing things of my own) from my car before
leaving Athlone for Dublin last Tuesday
morning.
Thanks largely to the cold I had,
and all the lengthy bouts of coughing while lying
in bed tying to sleep during previous nights, I
was still running late last Tuesday morning; and,
I began taking shortcuts to try and meet the 12
noon meeting time in the Kildare Hotel which we
had arranged by phone the day before. I felt I
could save about 20 minutes if I left my plastic
boxes in my car: instead of hauling them up to my
room in the Prince of Wales Hotel. (
Incidentally,
in passing, and as I may have mentioned to you, my
half-sister
Margie still remembers parts of
my parents --
your grand parents -- wedding
reception at the
Prince of Wales Hotel in
Athlone on
April 5th 1937, and she would
have been close to 5 years old on the day). And,
at the same time, I also gambled on the hope that
the combined amount of luggage you and Larissa had
would have fitted in among my plastic boxes. Not
so. Such is life!!
Since we parted last
Wednesday, I been thinking a lot about my next big
ambition: which is to meet Connor and
Grace.
I hope you still feel okay about
introducing me to them?
If so, please let
me know, and I'll start making definite
arrangements to visit Melbourne.
Last
Thursday, I informed a woman in a local travel
agents that I was vaguely thinking about visiting
Melbourne in the early part of 2013 for about a
month; and, after working on her PC for a few
minutes, she informed me that the best return
airline prices would be for January 28th (2013) to
February 28th (2013).
If, for any reason
you feel these dates would be bad for the purpose
of you introducing me to Connor and Grace, please
let me know. At this very early stage of planning,
it would of course be very easy for me to change
these provisional dates, if
necessary.
Shortly after we parted last
Wednesday, the thought crossed my mind -- pretty
strongly for some reason -- that it would perhaps
be a good thing for me to try and meet Dean before
you take me to meet Connor and Grace? Would
you be happy to introduce me to him? If not,
maybe I could phone him myself (after I get to
Melbourne), and try to arrange to go out for a
meal with him, or something of that sort? I
would really love it if the three of us could have
a modest meal together; but, I realise of course
that might make you and/or Dean feel awkward and
uncomfortable, on account of your
separation.
Incidentally, I had a quick try
at looking for the origins of the
Horsey
family-name, and it seems possible, and maybe even
very likely, that one or more of Dean's ancestors
would have come from in or around the small town
of
Horsey in the
Norfolk area of
England (for more information on the Horsey
area please see at
http://www.tournorfolk.co.uk/horsey.html).
In July of 1994, I spent some time not very far
from there, thanks to the fact I had a friend at
the time whose father owned a holiday home in the
region. It's a very nice and in some ways very
interesting area, or so it seemed to me at least.
(Among a number of other things, it's
"Celtic Queen
Boadicea Country", please see at:
http://tinyurl.com/95txn4v)
Assuming
you are still happy about introducing me to Connor
and Grace, and provided you have a little spare
time, I'd also be interested in getting hold of
the contact information of any local
letting-agency in the business of renting
self-catering units (of the most basic kind, for
one person) for a month, within a half-hour's walk
(or so) from where you live. I'd really love to be
able to spend some more time with you during my
stay in Melbourne, so that we could both get to
know each other a little better: while realising
and accepting of course that you might not have
all that much spare time, after doing your paid
work, looking after the children, attending to
your own house work, and so on. With further
reference to the self-catering accommodation
matter, all I would need is the basic contact
information for the letting-agency, and I could do
the rest myself (regarding the actual bookings,
payments, and all that kind of
thing).
Finally (for now), I have started a
new Yahoo e-mail address for the purpose of
planning for my introduction to Connor and Grace
(assuming you are still happy to help): which I am
using in this e-mail. I would appreciate it very
much if you could use it -- as well -- in all
future communications connected with my hopes and
plans for meeting Connor and Grace (through you)
sometime in early 2013. The text I decided on for
this new e-mail
"name and
address"
was chosen in the hope that both of use will find
it easy to remember:
Granddad
Finnerty at e-mail address: connorandgracehorsey@yahoo.ie
Much Love,
Dad
xxx.
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